FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps
FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps
Standard of 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up replaces old 25Mbps/3Mbps benchmark.
Standard of 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up replaces old 25Mbps/3Mbps benchmark.
About time. Maybe the maps will be updated correctly and people can now see just how pathetic those ISPs have been.
Century Link advertises 12mbps in my town, charges you for 12 delivers 3 with the occasional 6.
I have both T-Mobile home internet and another wireless service. T-Mobile gives me up to 50, but averages closer to 18. The other wireless (WiPower) is 15.
File an FCC complaint. They are required to provide something like 80% of the advertised speeds on average otherwise they can get into hot water with FCC with big files.
Shit. they charged me for 9Mbps and delivered 0.5Mbps when I had them
They really should require it to be 100M symmetric. Slow upload speeds make it nearly impossible to use online storage.
This is why Xfinity just sent me a note saying they're graciously increasing my upload speed to 20mbps. How nice of them. 🙄
I’m kind of shocked given how historically beholden to the big telcos they’ve been. What’s the status on net neutrality and treating Internet connectivity as a utility?
Ongoing. They adopted the proposal to restore it and public comments period ended.
Fiber internet has spoiled me. 20mb would be unbearably slow, it is shameful that this is even considered to be the standard.
As someone with that backwater standard of 30mb/6mb, a 20mb up would mean I could actually stream at a decent quality or upload videos at a decent rate. Sine I'm already at the bottom of the barrel, I'll take whatever I can get.
I'm at like 300/10 and it's miserable. I'd gladly go back to 100 down if it means i could also get 100 up. I'd settle for 50 up at this point. Wife can barely stream her Spin/Workout classes (she's the instructor).
i literally cannot get internet slower than 100Mbps symmetric here in sweden lol, astounding that providers in the US are so reticent to improve speeds.
it reminds me of the american rail freight industry, it seems they would prefer to dismantle the entire infrastructure and become investment companies instead..
Why improve speeds when you can keep the same low ones so charging more for the faster speeds seems reasonable, with the added benefit of not having to upgrade infrastructure for as long as possible! Its even more fun when you get big government subsidies for the improvements and don't pass the savings on at all!
I'm in the US but thankfully I'm on fiber getting unlimited 1000 Mbps symmetric for $65 a month, but my last place was $90 for 1000 Mbps down 10 Mbps up with a 1 tb cap. My parents pay $150 for the same. It's a mess out here.
How about latency?
I'm not sure this is going to be a net good. There are plenty of places that don't come close to the old benchmark, and surely it's easier to go from offering 50Mbps to offering 100Mbps than it is to go from no service to 25Mbps?
If there's not already lines to an area, you'd have to really try pretty hard to even find enough older/slower cabeling to justify the install costs alone. The only reason we don't already have fiber everywhere is because they don't wanna pay to dig... Despite being heavily subsided with the understanding that they should already be doing that.
I don't think that's true. If the limitations are physical, the cost is the same. Lay fiber once, problem solved.
Do you know why places don’t come close right now?